The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2140 or 2140?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2140?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2140| = ?
The absolute value of 2140 is the distance between 2140 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2140:

Since the distance between 2140 and 0 on a number line is 2140, we get the answer as follows:
|2140| = 2140
Note that the absolute value of 2140 can also be written as abs(2140) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2141
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